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Faculty of SCIENCE Faculty of SCIENCE Research in the Faculty of Science continues to go from strength to strength. Against a backdrop of the increasingly integrated nature of research, the past year saw our publication output grow and the international impact of our work improve. uct research report / 2013–14 145 DEAN’S REPORT Professor Anton le Roex THE FACULTy’S RESEARCH OUTPUT CONTINUES TO GROW, BOTH IN QUANTITY AND QUALITY; ISI JOURNAL ARTICLES INCREASED BY SIX PERCENT OVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR. The vast majority of staff in the Faculty of Science are actively involved in research programmes, and are located within 12 separate departments arranged on disciplinary grounds. There are 16 formal research units and centres within the Faculty of Science that are accredited by the University Research Committee. The faculty also supports 11 senior scholars, 10 DST/NRF SARChI chairs, and 91 honorary research associates 164 formally linked to departments. NRF-rated researchers These various staff, together with their postgraduate students, all contributed to the faculty’s research output, which continues to grow, both in quantity and quality; ISI journal articles increased by six percent over the previous year. R113.42m A major development in 2013 was the merger of two previously separate departments, Botany and Zoology, to value of Research form the single Department of Biological Sciences. This important development reflects the change in nature contracts of biological research where ecology, biodiversity and conservation biology increasingly reflect the integration of the previously separate disciplines of botany and zoology. To facilitate their research, staff were successful in raising approximately R142 million from governmental and non-governmental sources, with income from the 1 041 latter comprising close to R69 million of this total, 50% registered POSTGRADUATES higher than that received in 2012. The number of research 146 uct research report / 2013–14 contracts, at 226, was also significantly higher than research contributions. Professor William Bond, Harry in 2012 (145). Bolus Professor of Botany, was elected as a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Science in the In addition, an injection of around R8 million from USA (see p149). Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, university sources was a very welcome relief to many in head of the Department of Biological Sciences, was the faculty. Income from industry, government, public the recipient of the World Academy of Science Sub- entities and statutory bodies was essential in providing Saharan Africa prize for the Public Understanding bursaries to master’s and PhD students, postdoctoral and Popularisation of Science. fellowships, salaries of research and support staff and project running expenses. THIS IMPORtant The number of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers continued to grow, with 388 PhD and 459 DEVELOPMENT REFLECTS master’s students registered in the faculty, and 153 THE CHANGE IN natuRE postdoctoral fellows spread across the departments. The number of doctoral degrees awarded in 2013 was OF BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH 59, and there were 142 master’s degrees, 22% of the WHERE ECOLOGY, latter with distinction. BIODIVERSITY AND Two postgraduate students who excelled in their CONSERvatiON BIOLOGY studies were James Lee-Thorp, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, who received INCREASINGLY REFLECT the Southern Africa Association for the Advancement THE INTEGRatiON OF THE of Science (S2A3) Medal for his master’s dissertation Spectral Continuation Study of the Temporally PREVIOUSLY SEpaRatE Periodic Solitons of the Damped-Driven Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations, and Dr Neil Hart, Department DISCIPLINES OF BOtanY of Oceanography, who received the Faculty of Science AND ZOOLOGY. PhD Medal for his thesis Synoptic-scale Rainfall Patterns over Southern Africa: Scale interactions with large-scale modes of variability. The faculty strives to continually improve the international impact of its research. The latter can At a national level, Professor Kelly Chibale received be gauged in a number of ways, one being the 2013 the Medical Research Council Young Scientist Award Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings by (Silver Medal) in recognition of the excellence of subject, where we were placed in the band of 101 to his research in drug discovery, and specifically for 150 top universities for the Biological Sciences and for leading the project team that discovered a potential Environmental Science, and in the band 50 to 100 for new drug treatment for malaria (see p168). the Earth and Marine Sciences. Associate Professor Maano Ramutsindela, from the Another, wholly numerical, way to evaluate impact is Department of Environmental and Geographical to consider field normalised citation data. The 2013 Science, received the prestigious National Research Mouton Report (commissioned by UCT) showed that Foundation (NRF) Award for Transformation of the 14 science faculty disciplines have field normalised Science Cohort, which recognises black scientists for citation scores greater than 1 (which is the world their efforts in overcoming challenges. The award is average). It is also noteworthy that, in 11 of the 14 focused on transforming the science cohort to be fields, the proportion of science faculty papers in the more representative of South African demographics top 10% of cited articles worldwide is higher than (see p149). the expected 10%. At a national level, some 40% of academic staff in the faculty are rated by the National Dr Amanda Weltman, Department of Mathematics Research Foundation as either international leaders and Applied Mathematics, was awarded the Jubilee (A-rated), or having strong international reputations Silver Medal by the South African Institute of (B-rated) or being outstanding young researchers with Physics. Professor Graeme Cumming, Department the potential to become world leaders (P-rated). of Biological Sciences, won the prestigious S2A3 British–South Africa Association Medal (Silver) for Staff in the science faculty continued to garner his research on biodiversity and conservation biology international and national recognition in 2013 for their (see p150). uct research report / 2013–14 147 Emeritus Associate Professor Jenny Day was awarded the South African Society of Aquatic Scientists Gold First light Medal – awarded on rare occasions in recognition of an exceptionally high standard of research in the aquatic sciences, or an exceptionally valuable contribution to the management, conservation or development of aquatic ecosystems or resources, over an extended period. Within UCT, Dr Andrew Hamilton (Department of Physics) was the recipient of the College of Fellows Young Researcher Award for his research in high- energy particle physics, working in the ATLAS Collaboration at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. Associate Professor Patrick Woudt from the THE ACADEMIC staFF IS Department of Astronomy has co-authored the first scientific paper based on observations performed SUPPORTED BY MANY HIGHLY with South Africa’s new KAT-7 radio telescope. The SKILLED AND DEdicatED paper, which was accepted by the prestigious journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomy Society ADMINISTRativE AND (MNRAS), was written with Dr Richard Armstrong, TECHNICAL staFF. a UCT alumnus and Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South African Fellow at UCT, and Professor Rob Fender of the University of Southampton and a SKA visiting professor at UCT. The number and variety of research projects of Titled “A Return to Strong Radio Flaring by Circinus international interest being undertaken by staff X-1 Observed with the Karoo Array Telescope Test in the science faculty are too many to report on in Array KAT-7”, the paper reports on observations of the this general, high-level introduction. Nevertheless, neutron star binary Circinus X-1 in December 2011 and a glance through the list of publications emanating January 2012, which caught two successive bright radio from the faculty provides insight into the many varied flares from this unusual binary system. The project was and exciting research projects that came to fruition a joint effort with the HartRAO radio telescope near during 2013. Johannesburg and KAT-7. In addition to research articles, books and South Africa is constructing MeerKAT, the 64-dish book chapters that were published, three major radio interferometer that serves as a precursor to the international conferences were held at UCT and SKA. UCT researchers are leading four of the approved organised by staff in the faculty in 2013: the “Sixth MeerKAT Key Science Projects, representing a quarter International Conference: Hard and electromagnetic of MeerKAT time. One of these projects is the 3 000- probes of high-energy nuclear collisions” (Theoretical hour ThunderKAT survey for astrophysical transients Physics), the “Fourth Annual Symposium on led by Associate Professor Woudt and Professor Computing for Development” (Computer Science), Fender, which will search for all types of radio bursts and the Sixth International Conference on Information and flashes in KAT-7 and MeerKAT data on timescales and Communication Technologies and Development from seconds to years. (Computer Science). These important conferences contributed to improving our international visibility Associate Professor Woudt obtained his PhD in as a faculty. Astronomy at UCT in 1998 and has published 74 peer-reviewed journal articles (27 as first author). His The quality and research performance
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